TFA (yes, I read it/them) partly emphasizes this as competition with Apple - would that part help the consumer, or would it hurt? (It might hurt because it seems Apple's business interests have been acting as a counterweight to the big labels' business interests, a force of resistance that may end up being diluted with the labels facing two separate heavyweights)
If you are OK with closed-source freeware, I've found MediaMonkey to be very good for music - handles a load of file formats, what I feel is a smooth and effective interface, et cetera. Easy multitagging, good integrated gathering of data on ripped CD's for the most part... I thought my collection was large at ~9K tracks and ~100GB, but you've definitely got me beat
I organize the stuff into desired folder hierarchy (generally a variant of Genre\Artist\Album) before I import it into the program.
so, simply connect the line-in to the line-out and record that line-in as easily as any other source? Thus, what that "microphone" captures is the exact same feed that would usually go to speakers/headphones.
Yeah, that's why I was even more cynical about the Japan relief drive than usual. You'd think they'd have the money and manpower to primarily handle their own disasters.
I actually like a fair amount of mainstream stuff - as such, I'm tired of it all getting lumped together and flamed, even though a lot of it _does_ suck. (If I give examples, you'll just think that they suck too.)
[Relative] obscurity and/or the past aren't the only places to find stuff you actually like listening to (even though I've got plenty of that material too.)
Seems problems the music itself is a somewhat different issue from their problems adapting to the change in business models for distribution.
I haven't watched much Dr. Who in particular, but I know what you mean - go back to a work a few years later, and you'll sometimes find that your rose-colored glasses are gone.
Anthony Mouse was taking about the RIAA trying to make the oldschool distribution model more necessary. One thing that would allow them to do is screw musicians on patent-licensing for DRM schemes
to be honest, how do you go about recording directly form what the sound card is outputting? I admit I'm not having any luck with the initial Google-fu on the matter
I think there are some websites that are essentially automating this process, giving you only the finished MP3 to download instead of the entire video.
HD YouTube videos convert to 256kbps MP3 audio, standard-def to 128kbps (AFAIK). Quite decent IMHO. I tend to use the better Web-based-converter sites myself.
Of course, you have to like the performance itself, and it has to be a decent recording job, as usual.:)
I don't see how recognizing that the music sucks should translate to hating on Bieber as a person. Similar goes for Rebecca Black. Speaking of which:
"It is rad that the girl is having fun, the bad part is that someone is trying to make money off it... I am mad at the system, not the girl" - DJ White Shadow http://twitter.com/#!/DJWS/status/49979187750121472
P.S. I find Bieber-is-female and other such comments to be immature
Yeah, I can't say all I intend to in 120 characters either. Summarization is good (and I could definitely stand to get better at it), but there's such a thing as forcing too much.
I am inclined to agree with the strong analogies brought up by the sibling commenters, however. I could easily read them with music-industry-specific words plugged in (will, with a similarly weird analogue to the Phillip K. Dick example; there's got to be something.)
I did say it was a general problem (maybe I should have added 'as well' at the end of my sentence to clarify); thanks for your extensive clothing example. Definitely with you on that "fashion as often overpriced and/or impractical" sentiment, as well as many of the other parts of your comment, although maybe not your specific preferences.
I'm not a car guy myself, so I can't speak on the people critiquing you on the specifics. "Screwing poor people in the long run because they can't afford a large initial outlay" is a general problem that I suppose would crop up in the automotive industry.
That reminded of a common quotable from the British political satire TV show Yes Minister:
Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:
* The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
* The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
* The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country;
* The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
* The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
* The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
* And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
yeah, media concern about the current major story tends to force previous major stories out of the news, relatively speaking. Here, the last major story is probably the Libyan revolt, though something else happened to oil-spill news in a similar fashion
Yeah, sometimes the online databases don't have a CD or only have it tagged in some screwed-up manner like what you described. However, fixing those occasional mishaps is better than having to type in tag info for _everything_.
Organizing downloaded files as opposed to ripped-from-CD files can also be a PITA.
I hear that - in this regard, non-DRM'ed lossless wouldn't be different from the non-DRM'ed lossy they're already selling - Amazon's and eMusic's non-DRMed.mp3's can join ITMS's non-DRM'ed.m4a's on your list.:)
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TFA (yes, I read it/them) partly emphasizes this as competition with Apple - would that part help the consumer, or would it hurt? (It might hurt because it seems Apple's business interests have been acting as a counterweight to the big labels' business interests, a force of resistance that may end up being diluted with the labels facing two separate heavyweights)
If you are OK with closed-source freeware, I've found MediaMonkey to be very good for music - handles a load of file formats, what I feel is a smooth and effective interface, et cetera. Easy multitagging, good integrated gathering of data on ripped CD's for the most part...
I thought my collection was large at ~9K tracks and ~100GB, but you've definitely got me beat
I organize the stuff into desired folder hierarchy (generally a variant of Genre\Artist\Album) before I import it into the program.
Classic Dr. Demento FTW: http://www.quantumnow.com/trek/lyrics.html
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=569
The different parts of Sony having conflicting interests..
A separate comment on that:
"Epic's* up in my face like, "Don't steal our songs Lars,"
While Sony sells the burners that are burning CD-R's "
-MC Lars, Download This Song
* Epic Records is one of the Sony Music sublabels
I have a Realtek, but I'm on XP, so I'm confused because I see something a bit different from the Vista/7 guides of course.
I had thought that (ab)using the analog hole entailed having to point a separate unconnected recording device at the source. cool. :)
so, simply connect the line-in to the line-out and record that line-in as easily as any other source?
Thus, what that "microphone" captures is the exact same feed that would usually go to speakers/headphones.
Yeah, that's why I was even more cynical about the Japan relief drive than usual. You'd think they'd have the money and manpower to primarily handle their own disasters.
I actually like a fair amount of mainstream stuff - as such, I'm tired of it all getting lumped together and flamed, even though a lot of it _does_ suck. (If I give examples, you'll just think that they suck too.)
[Relative] obscurity and/or the past aren't the only places to find stuff you actually like listening to (even though I've got plenty of that material too.)
Seems problems the music itself is a somewhat different issue from their problems adapting to the change in business models for distribution.
I haven't watched much Dr. Who in particular, but I know what you mean - go back to a work a few years later, and you'll sometimes find that your rose-colored glasses are gone.
Anthony Mouse was taking about the RIAA trying to make the oldschool distribution model more necessary. One thing that would allow them to do is screw musicians on patent-licensing for DRM schemes
to be honest, how do you go about recording directly form what the sound card is outputting?
I admit I'm not having any luck with the initial Google-fu on the matter
I think there are some websites that are essentially automating this process, giving you only the finished MP3 to download instead of the entire video.
I like http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ for SD videos (128kbps MP3) and http://www.makeitmp3.com/ for the HD ones (256kbps MP3)
HD YouTube videos convert to 256kbps MP3 audio, standard-def to 128kbps (AFAIK).
Quite decent IMHO.
I tend to use the better Web-based-converter sites myself.
Of course, you have to like the performance itself, and it has to be a decent recording job, as usual. :)
Non-sarcastically, might that fine be a constitutional problem via Amendment 8?
The problem you're describing seems to be this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_myopia
I don't see how recognizing that the music sucks should translate to hating on Bieber as a person. Similar goes for Rebecca Black. Speaking of which:
"It is rad that the girl is having fun, the bad part is that someone is trying to make money off it... I am mad at the system, not the girl" - DJ White Shadow
http://twitter.com/#!/DJWS/status/49979187750121472
P.S.
I find Bieber-is-female and other such comments to be immature
Yeah, I can't say all I intend to in 120 characters either.
Summarization is good (and I could definitely stand to get better at it), but there's such a thing as forcing too much.
I am inclined to agree with the strong analogies brought up by the sibling commenters, however.
I could easily read them with music-industry-specific words plugged in (will, with a similarly weird analogue to the Phillip K. Dick example; there's got to be something.)
I did say it was a general problem (maybe I should have added 'as well' at the end of my sentence to clarify); thanks for your extensive clothing example.
Definitely with you on that "fashion as often overpriced and/or impractical" sentiment, as well as many of the other parts of your comment, although maybe not your specific preferences.
I'm not a car guy myself, so I can't speak on the people critiquing you on the specifics.
"Screwing poor people in the long run because they can't afford a large initial outlay" is a general problem that I suppose would crop up in the automotive industry.
That reminded of a common quotable from the British political satire TV show Yes Minister:
Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:
* The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
* The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
* The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country;
* The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
* The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
* The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
* And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
yeah, media concern about the current major story tends to force previous major stories out of the news, relatively speaking. Here, the last major story is probably the Libyan revolt, though something else happened to oil-spill news in a similar fashion
Yeah, sometimes the online databases don't have a CD or only have it tagged in some screwed-up manner like what you described. However, fixing those occasional mishaps is better than having to type in tag info for _everything_.
Organizing downloaded files as opposed to ripped-from-CD files can also be a PITA.
I hear that - in this regard, non-DRM'ed lossless wouldn't be different from the non-DRM'ed lossy they're already selling - Amazon's and eMusic's non-DRMed .mp3's can join ITMS's non-DRM'ed .m4a's on your list. :)